I made some new textures over the weekend. I noticed I was using the same textures and patterns in each of my illustrations. So, instead of drawing new textures for each project, I wanted to create a master file of textures. That way I could pull all of my favorite textures from one photoshop file.

I used some liquid acrylic paint and a broad pallet knife. That's the super bright orange one. I scribbled with a dying blue marker, tried different pressures of china marker and charcoal, and drew some wobbling lines and polka dots. I thought that would make for a nice collection of textures.

This is the final product scanned in and separated from the page. Each layer is a different texture I can easily drop into an illustration.

This is usually how I work - illustration on the right and all of my lines and textures on the left. Here you can see that I pulled these stripes onto the bass-player's shirt. Pretty fun, huh?

Here's another recent spot I created for Road & Track Magazine. The article was about the influence of Japanese imported cars in the 1980s and 1990s of American and European car designs. Really fascinating!

In my sketches, I wanted to show the importance of the Lexus model that started it all, it's influence, and how other manufacturers continually tried to one-up it. Above is what I came up with.

The art directors chose the classic wave image. Below are the drawing components I used to create the final illustration.

It was a bit if a tight turn-around. I was able to put these drawings together, lay some flat colors down and apply textures. Below is the final image.